Dump-wagon.



E. PAULSEN.

DUMP WAGON.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23.1916.

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Patented July 2, 1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND PAULSEN, or OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

H To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND PAULsEN, a

citizen of the United States, residin at trollable by the driver, for actuating the body to invert the same and discharge the contents thereof during forward movement of the vehicle; to'provide a stop for preventing continuation of the rotational dumping movement as the body reaches its normal position; and to provide means for locking the bodyin such normal position.

In the accompanying drawings Figurell isa side view of a wagon embodyin -m'y invention, Fig; 2 .is a plan view of tliesame,

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof, and Fig.

4'is a transverse-vertical section on the plane of the line of Fig. 2. i f

In carrying out my invention I provide a a wheeled vehicle or wagon having. a rectangular open frame consisting of metal sidebars 5, a rear bolster 6 and a front bolster 7. The rear bolster rests upon and is fixedly secured to an axle 8 which is sup orted by the rear "wheels 9 of the vehicle. The front bolster 7 rests upon the usual truck-body or fifth-wheel .10' which is supported by the front wheels 11 and is provided with a tongue 12 and the ordinary draft rigging 13 for hitching horses to the wagon. The sidebars 5 have upwardly-bowed portions 14 at the waist to enable the wheels 11 to pass beneath them when making short turns. Above the front bolster 7 there is a seat 15 for the driver, and a suitable foot-board or dash 16.

The wagon-body is cylindro-segmental in form, being open at the top, and having curved convex ends 17 symmetrical about a common horizontal axis, flat sides 18, and a fiat bottom 19, all of which are preferably of metal and double-walled, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to provide an air-space between the inner and outer surfaces. On the sides 18 are laterally-extending t-runnions 20 which are journaled in suitable bearings 21 mount- DUMP-WAGON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1918.

Application filed .Tune 23, 1916. Serial No. 105,387.

ed on the side-bars 5. Said trunnions are located symmetrically with respect to the upper andlower edges of the body, but are slightl in front of the longitudmal center thereof: so that when uniformly loaded the body will have a slight tendency to tilt rearwardly.

To one of the side-bars 5, near the rear end thereof, is secured a forked standard or bracket 22, and in the upper end of said standard there is a short transverse shaft 23 on which is pivoted an L-shaped lever or bell-crank 24 consisting of two similar latcrally spaced portions, as shown in Fig. 3. In theend of the lower'or forWardly-extendin arm of said lever there is journaleda sha 25, on the outer end of which is secured a friction-wheel 26, said wheel being positioned near and alined transversely with the tire or rim of. one of the rear wheels 9 of the wagon. On the inner part of the shaft. 25 is secured a small sprocket-wheel 27 which is connected by means of a chain 28 with a sprocket-wheel 29 secured on one of the body-trunnions 20. The upper arm of the lever 24 is connected by means of a rod 30 with a foot-lever 31 which is pivoted on the frame at a position such as to be COIIVGH. iently reached by the driver of the wagon when seated upon the seat 15. A spring 32 is connected with the lever 31. and normally pulls the same toward a vertical position at which the rod 30 is pushed rearwardly and holds the lever 24 up to such a position that the wheel 26 will not engage the wheel 9. By pressing the footlever forwardly and downwardly the lever 24 is moved so as to forcibly press the friction-wheel 26 against the wheel 9, and, when the wagon is moving forwardly, such engagement of the wheels tends to aotuatethe sprocket-wheels 27 and 29, and rotate the Wagon-body about its trunnion-axis in the direction shown by arrows in Fig.1.

. On one of the side-bars 5 near the bowed portion 14 there is secured a guide 33' in which a lock-bar 34 is slidable horizontally. The rearward end of said lock-bar extends normally into a socket formed by a U-shaped strap 35 which is secured on the side 18 of the wagon-body near the front end thereof. The lower side of the lock-bar is also engaged by a hook or angle-plate 36 which is secured on the side 18 slightly in front of the U-strap 35, as shown. The front end of the lock-bar is connected by means of a rod 37 with'a lever 38 which is pivoted to the'fram e'i V alongside the seat 15. Theinotohed segment 1.;

I39, positioned alongside the lever, is engaged "by a releasable latch-device 40 carried on the lever and holdsthe lever normally inthe'aproximately =verti'z'tl fids'ition shown in Fig. 1; By pushing the lever 387fo1fwardlyto a, position atw'hich the latch-devieeis' engageble with-th lo r o q war ho h in the segment 59, the lookber, is moved, forward so as to be disengaged from the em}; 3 5

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